Re: [rox-devel] ROX on Mac OS X + question

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:24:19PM -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just got ROX-Filer working on Mac OS X, with some help from the Fink 
> package manager <http://fink.sourceforge.net>. There's a nice screenshot 
> up at <http://djv25.resnet.cornell.edu/rox-osx.png>. If you want to try 
> it out, install Fink, then grab the files inside 
> <http://djv25.resnet.cornell.edu/rox/> and dump them in 
> '/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo'. Finally, 'fink install rox', open 
> a new terminal so your CHOICESPATH is set up properly, and run rox. Nice 
> and simple :-)
> 
> Besides some patches to allow it to build, a couple things are changed: 
> The default CHOICESPATH is "${HOME}/Library/Choices:/sw/share/Choices" 
> on the ported version, and the install script isn't interactive (to help 
> Fink manage things).

Would this be a good default for all applications? I can update the
Choices spec if so...

> I'm not exactly sure where to go from here--are ROX apps generally 
> distributed as binaries, as .deb or .rpm packages, as source? Should I 
> try to integrate the OS X patches into the "upstream" ROX source, or 
> just keep them separate and in sync? Any advice would be appreciated!

If the changes are fairly small and have #ifdefs around them then I'll
apply them to the main source.


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